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Through a serendipitous series of events, I was able to hook up with Eric Staller, inventor of the Conference Bike. He just happened to be driving through St. Louis as part of his cross-country tour and I made arrangements to check out his invention. Eric arrived with his bike on the back of a special truck:

Within minutes, it was ready to go.

I rustled up several friends from my building and we went for a ride around the Soulard area of St. Louis. It was a blast. I cannot come close to describing not only the fun we had riding it on the streets around the Farmer’s Market, but the sheer joy and wonderment the sight of seven people facing one another while pedalling a bike caused on almost everyone we passed.

I don’t know yet how to incorporate this bike into my retreat and conference business, but I can’t imagine an easier (and more fun) way to do some quick team building and encourage collaboration. Very cool!

If Eric is coming through your town, you owe it to yourself to meet him and take a spin on the Conference Bike. It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.

Thank you, Eric!

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I wrote about the Conference Bike the other day. As luck would have it, the inventor is doing a cross-country tour and just happens to be coming through St. Louis tomorrow (Saturday)! Anyone want to go for a ride? Call my cell at 618–407–3241 or e-mail me at Matt@LexThink.com if you want to join me. I’ll know more details on time/place tomorrow.

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I’ve been a bit light on the blogging lately. The primary reason is that I’ve been building another web site as a home for my Idea Markets as well as my fledgling personal retreat and consulting business. While Dennis Kennedy and I are working with the incomparable JoAnna Forshee on several future LexThink events (more on those next week), I felt it was easier to leave LexThink as a legal-focused company and move my other stuff under a different umbrella.

I’m calling that different umbrella real BIG thinking, and I’d love for you to take a look. The website is not quite done, and I’ll be tweaking the copy, mapping the domain name, adding new resources, and cleaning up the interface over the next few weeks.

I’m also blogging about facilitation, retreats, innovation and creativity on my new blog: Idea Surplus Disorder.

It is only a matter of time before some of these blog posts show up on the front page of Google. As it stands now, using Google’s Blog Search, a post titled “Stupid Larry” is the first result.

I know Larry and like him. I’ve presented with him at ABA’s Techshow. He’s a very smart guy, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is all part of a plan to demonstrate how blogging works — a subject he writes and speaks about frequently. However, it is also a cautionary lesson in the power of blogs and citizen media. I will say this, I bet his article is the number one page (by far) served up by law.com this week.